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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

For example in ads, experiments using cookies (users) as experimental units are not suited to capture the impact of a treatment on advertisers or publishers nor their reaction to it. Henne, Dan Sommerfield, Overall Evaluation Criterion , Proceedings 13th Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2007.

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

Data mining for direct marketing: Problems and solutions. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 73–79. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc. 30(2–3), 195–215. link] Ling, C. X., & Li, C. Quinlan, J. Programs for machine learning. Everhart, J.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Companies like Google [2], Amazon [3], and Microsoft [4] have all published scholarly articles on this topic. Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining. Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.